Loss of Sensation (1935)

Original title

Гибель сенсации

Directed by

Aleksandr Andriyevsky

Genre

science fiction film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A scientist creates a workforce of robots that start to rebel against their human creators. The story explores the conflict between humans and intelligent machines.

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What happens

Loss of Sensation, alternatively titled Robot of Jim Ripple (Russian: «Гибель сенсации» («Робот Джима Рипль»)) is a 1935 Soviet science fiction sound film directed by Alexandr Andriyevsky. Although the film uses the abbreviation "R.U.R" for the robots, it is not based directly on the 1920 stageplay by Karel Čapek. The film is based on the 1929 Ukrainian novel Iron Riot (also known as Robots are coming) by Volodimir Vladko. As of 2013, the film is in public domain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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